Newcastle is home to one of the most dangerous road traffic junctions in the UK.

Twelve people have been seriously injured in nine separate road collisions at notorious accident black spot Market Street in the past eight years.

Seven people have also been killed at junctions elsewhere in the city and eight people have been hurt in accidents on Grainger Street at its junctions with Westgate Road and Newgate Street since 2005.

However Newcastle City Council has made changes to the layout at Grainger Street and Westgate Road junction this summer.

The frequency of accidents at Market Street’s junction with Grey Street makes it the country’s sixth most dangerous place to cross following other locations in Nottingham, Leeds and London.

In all but two of the Market Street incidents, the collisions involved vehicles, and as previously reported in the Chronicle, over the past two years many people crossing that stretch of road have been struck by buses.

The statistics held on website data.gov.uk show that between 2005 and 2013 there were 231 accidents at junctions in Newcastle.

While the data doesn’t specify if the injured people were pedestrians or travelling in vehicles at the time, many of those in the city centre have been struck on foot.

The information also shows how many of the incidents followed earlier fatalities at the very same location.

At Newgate Street’s junction with Grainger Street, three people were injured between 2008 and 2010 despite someone dying at the spot in a collision in 2006.

A member of the public was seriously injured at Percy Street in October 2006, but just a month later on November 25, another person was tragically killed.

The Rev Michael Malleson, 69, died after his bike was clipped by a moving car in November 2011, and others also lost their lives at the junctions of Netherby Drive and Two Ball Lonnen, Claremont Road and Grandstand Road, St James’ Boulevard and Scotswood Road, Denton Road and Dorset Road between 2005 and 2013.

In June 2013, a 27-year-old woman was left fighting for life after being struck by a bus on Percy Street.

The woman was taken to the city’s Royal Victoria Infirmary where she was treated for a serious head injury.

In 2012, emergency services were also called to more than 10 incidents of buses hitting pedestrians.

The most dangerous junction in the UK is in Nottingham where Canal Street meets with Carrington Street with 11 serious accidents recorded between 2005 and 2013 with 12 people injured and involving 14 vehicles.

The council’s head of highways and local services, Peter Gray, said: “Naturally, we are very concerned by the level of accidents at some junctions in Newcastle. The junctions highlighted are already very well served with pedestrian crossings and traffic calming measures. I’m pleased to say that the junction at Westgate Road meeting Grainger Street has been modified to reduce the number of vehicles on that road and make it safer for pedestrians. We are looking at the other junctions to see if any further road safety measures can be introduced.

“However, I must stress that it is everyone’s responsibility to stay alert in our busy city centre. Drivers should be aware that the city centre operates a 20mph speed limit and pedestrians need to check that it is safe to cross the road before doing so.”

The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) was unavailable for comment.